K.X. Song Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

K.X. Song is a published diaspora writer.

She has roots in Shanghai as well as Hong Kong. She was raised between different languages and cultures. She loves to tell stories that explore translation, collective memory, and how history shifts.

Her first novel for young adults was titled An Echo in the City. It was the winner of the Freeman Book Award. It was also picked as a Best Book of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews, the Financial Times, and the Chinese American Librarians Association.

Song would follow this book up with her fantasy novel, The Night Ends With Fire. It was a best seller that hit the top of the lists for publications such as the Sunday Times, USA Today, and the New York Times. She has had her work published in places such as The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, and Today.com.

The author resides in the area of San Francisco Bay, and she can sometimes be found joining a line to get some delicious dim sum. K.X. Song is a Highlights Foundation Fellow as well as a H.G. Wells Turnill Prize nominee. She has also been awarded residencies at the Anderson Center at Tower View and the Ragdale Foundation.

An Echo in the City is the first book to come out from K.X. Song. If you have been wanting to read something new and original, then definitely be sure to give this story a try!

Two teenagers who are star crossed for each other fall in love during the time of the Hong Kong protests. Phoenix is a young woman of sixteen years old and has a huge opportunity in front of her. She also knows that her parents have invested so much financially so that she could leave Hong Kong and attend school in America, receiving an Ivy League education.

Her parents believe that getting to America means pursuing big dreams, having a big bank account, getting big status. But Phoenix just wants a place that she can call home. She doesn’t really know where that would be, but when protests in Hong Kong start to begin, she starts to see that the place that she didn’t know she cared about so much might just disappear.

Then there’s Kai, who is seventeen years old. He doesn’t see himself as a cop or a filial son and has more of an identity as an artist. When his mother passes away, he must leave the city of Shanghai behind to see his father and reunite with the estranged parent.

His father is a police officer and has taken the liberty of enrolling his son in the police academy in Hong Kong. Kai doesn’t want to enjoy the job, but doesn’t mind it and finds that he wants to win the approval of his father. Then he switches phones with Phoenix, and in the process accidentally finds out that she is involved in a protest network.

Kai infiltrates the group and then reports on what they are planning on doing to the police, all in a bid to try and get his father to be proud of him. Phoenix and Kai together seem to be working for the same thing, to try and fight for Hong Kong’s future. In the process, they find a spark of attraction lighting between the two of them.

They have a close relationship, but it’s also one that’s constructed on deception. Do they have the capacity to care for the person that is left behind when everything comes to light? Or will the teens discover that anything precious that they have has just been blown to smithereens by the lies, never to come back again and resulting only in broken hearts? Read this contemporary fictional story to find out!

The Night Ends With Fire is the first book by K.X. Song in the series by the same title. If you have been looking for an engaging fantasy story to check out, give this one a try!

This is an adventure story that has tons of romance and magic that was inspired by the legend of Mulan. It too goes along with a young lady who wants to choose the destiny that is before her. Even if its ends up meaning that she has to go up against the people that she cares about.

Meilin’s father knows that the Three Kingdoms are warring, but he still won’t answer the call from the imperial draft. He has an opium addiction and it means that he stays home and is tied to that. Instead of going, he wants to sell off Meilin to get the dowry.

Meilin finds out that the man that she is meant to marry is ill tempered and violent. She knows that nothing is going to change unless she changes it herself. The next day, she dresses up as a boy and decides to take her father’s place and enlist.

Meilin gets recognition in the army and quickly makes friends thanks to all of her hard work and dedication. But she’s also getting closer to her training partner Sky, who is also a prince. She thinks that this could be working out, but it may just be that she’s traded in one tight place for another.

The kingdom is moving towards total destruction. Meilin starts to experience visions featuring a sea dragon spirit. The spirit offers to give her freedom and true power. The only thing is that there is a horrible price that is attached to it.

Meilin knows that the kingdom’s future is in the balance. Now she has to figure out who among her that she can trust and who is going to ruin everything. There’s Sky, a man that she is falling for and thinks could be loyal. The spirit of the sea dragon could be trusted, although he seems to be looking out for himself. Then there’s the enemy prince, who makes her wonder what she knows about her heart and more. What will she decide? Will the Three Kingdoms be saved? Read this entertaining book from K.X. Song to find out!